sudo in startup script

From: Pedro Pinto (ppinto_at_cs.cmu.edu)
Date: 08/29/04

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    Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 16:10:57 GMT

    Hi there,

    I am tyring to install the perforce source control system on my new BSD
    5.2.1. I want perforce to run under user perforce instead of root. I
    would rather not use setuid. I have tried installing the following
    script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/p4.sh

    #!/bin/sh

    # start
    if [ "x$1" = "x" -o "x$1" = "xstart" ]; then
         sudo -u perforce -b /usr/local/p4/start-p4
    # stop
    elif [ "x$1" = "xstop" ]; then
             killall p4d
    fi

    where start-p4 is a sh script that sets some env variables, sets umask
    and then spawns perforce. This works fine if I run the script on the
    command line but it does not work at startup. Some experimantion seems
    to indicate that the culprit is sudo (i.e. I cannot start anything else
    with sudo at startup and if I remove sudo from the above script
    everything works).

    Any ideas?

    TIA,
    -pp

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